Links from the lonely corner of bitter cold and weirdness

One Google Glass photo:There has been a person standing on the corner of Cedar Street and Broadway, across from Deising's in Midtown Kingston for about a month now. I've seen different people on that corner, of what could be anywhere in America, during bitter cold days and during the last two snowstorms. They are getting paid to be there, sometimes dressed up as Lady Liberty, without a hint of irony, waving at people, seemingly happy. They are trying to get customers to get some sort of tax service, sometimes waving a sign I can't pay attention to because I'm distracted— every time— by that single inexplicable moment of humankind's utter weirdness, in the cold, on a corner, alone.

DFMchat on hacking journalism when you've got no developers

Journalists, members of Digital First Media and pretty much everyone else who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday at noon, Eastern Time.

Today we are talking about how to hack, or rethink your journalism offerings digitally, especially when you've got limited or no resources and/or time. But let's not be abstract and get to the actual how-tos for specific topics and situations. What tool can you use for a story that has a long trail. What can you do with documents? But also, how much time can you and should you dedicate to each endeavor? Bring your tips and ideas! And tools!

The feed is posted below. You can also check out past chats over here.

If you want to chime in, post a comment in the container or a tweet with the hashtag "#dfmchat" so it can automatically appear below.

One of the cool things about checking out Good Twitter is that you truly can run into wonderful links all the time. Even if you don't use it for conversation (and you should), there are great links and videos and gifs and all sorts of icebreakers. But even if you were just lurking, a good feed can be enjoyable. And if your feed is bad maybe is time to stop following some people.Read more »

DFMchat on ingenious Twitter uses for journalism

Journalists, members of Digital First Media and pretty much everyone else who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday at noon, Eastern Time.

Today we are talking about Twitter as a journalism tool, and not just a traffic machine. But let's go beyond the usual useful uses and find and share ingenious ideas to make the service even more valuable. How can videos uploaded directly to Twitter help? Have you checked how many app installs have occurred because of your news account's tweets? Bring your tips and ideas!

The feed is posted below. You can also check out past chats over here.

If you want to chime in, post a comment in the container or a tweet with the hashtag "#dfmchat" so it can automatically appear below.

A video posted by SUNY New Paltz (@sunynewpaltz) on Oct 9, 2014 at 6:36pm PDT

One of my first lead stories for 'The Oracle,' SUNY New Paltz-student run newspaper back in The Before Time, was about pot smoking on campus. It was accompanied by a huge photo of a dude hitting a large bong in a dorm that the editors easily managed to obtain. I remember that the jump was terribly mangled in the editing process.

'New Brooklyn' won't die. 'New Brooklyn' is a zombie.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where the New Brooklyn article was born, and what that lousy meme was like, and how news writers were occupied and all before they had a New Brooklyn article written, and all that hipster kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.